![]() ![]() Parker wins our sympathies right away, not because she’s a victim, but because she’s sharp and funny. Parker portrays a character we know only as Li’l Bit, who as a middle-aged adult is narrating her complicated childhood relationship with her Uncle Peck, stepping in to scenes with him at various ages from 11 to 17, told out of chronological order. Friedman Theatre through May 29, Morse and Parker are reuniting twenty-five years after they originated their roles Off-Broadway. In this first Broadway production of “How I Learned to Drive,” running at MTC’s Samuel J. ![]() ![]() Strip away the humor, the artful metaphors, the theatrical craftsmanship and the empathy, and “How I Learned to Drive” is the story of a pedophile, alcoholic and would-be pornographer named Peck (portrayed by David Morse), who starts grooming his niece (Mary-Louise Parker) for sex from the age of 11.īut what’s remarkable about Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize winning play is precisely that the craftsmanship and especially the empathy draw us in, creating a theatrical filter that allows us to take in this disturbing story, and encourages us to try to understand it. ![]()
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